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5568 Kolsto and Blakkisrud.Indd RUSSIA BEFORE AND AFTER CRIMEA Nationalism and Identity, 2010–17 Edited by Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd iiiiii 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organisation Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud, 2018 © the chapters their several authors, 2018 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/13 Adobe Sabon by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 3385 3 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 3387 7 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 3388 4 (epub) The right of Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud to be identifi ed as the editors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd iivv 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM Contents List of fi gures vii List of tables viii Notes on contributors ix Preface xvii Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms 1 Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud Part I Official nationalism 1. Contemporary Russian nationalism in the historical struggle between ‘offi cial nationality’ and ‘popular sovereignty’ 23 Emil Pain 2. Imperial and ethnic nationalism: A dilemma of the Russian elite 50 Eduard Ponarin and Michael Komin 3. Kremlin’s post-2012 national policies: Encountering the merits and perils of identity-based social contract 68 Yuri Teper 4. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension 93 Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk Part II Radical and other societal nationalisms 5. Revolutionary nationalism in Contemporary Russia 119 Alexandra Kuznetsova and Sergey Sergeev 6. The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb 142 Alexander Verkhovsky v 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd v 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM vi russia before and after crimea 7. Ideologue of neo-Nazi terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia’s ‘partisan’ insurgency 163 Robert Horvath 8. The extreme right fringe of Russian nationalism and the Ukraine confl ict: The National Socialist Initiative 187 Sofi a Tipaldou Part III Identities and otherings 9. ‘Restore Moscow to the Muscovites’: Othering ‘the migrants’ in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections 213 Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø 10. Anti-migrant, but not nationalist: Pursuing statist legitimacy through immigration discourse and policy 236 Caress Schenk 11. Everyday patriotism and ethnicity in today’s Russia 258 J. Paul Goode 12. Identity in Crimea before annexation: A bottom-up perspective 282 Eleanor Knott Index 306 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd vvii 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM Figures Figure 2.1: Elite’s perception of the United States as a threat to Russian security 56 Figure 2.2: Scope of Russia’s national interests 57 Figure 2.3: Perceptions of the United States as a threat by the Russian elite and population at large, 1993–2009 58 Figure 2.4: Dynamics of the masses’ attitudes towards the United States and towards people hailing from the Caucasus 60 Figure 11.1: Budget for State Programme for Patriotic Education, 2001–20 264 Figure 11.2: Ethnicising by age group 270 Figure 12.1: Russian language use in Ukraine according to the 2001 Ukrainian census 284 Figure 12.2: Russian ethnicity in Ukraine according to the 2001 Ukrainian census 284 Figure 12.3: Language and ethnicity in the 2001 Ukrainian census 285 Figure 12.4: ‘In your opinion, what should the status of Crimea be?’ 288 vii 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd vviiii 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM Tables Table I.1: A typology of Russian nationalisms 5 Table 5.1: People killed and wounded in neo-Nazi attacks, 2004–16 131 Table 10.1: Public opinion on migrants in the labour market 242 Table 10.2: Commitment to multiculturalism 245 Table 10.3: What kinds of threat do migrants pose? 248 Table 10.4: Blacklists and deportations 251 Table 11.1: State Programme for Patriotic Education – budget breakdown 266 Table 11.2: State Programme for Patriotic Education – activity budgets 267 Table 12.1: Conceptualising identity in Crimea 294 Table 12.2: Territorial aspirations, by inductively d erived identifi cation category 300 viii 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd vviiiiii 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM Notes on Contributors Helge Blakkisrud is Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic, at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway. In 2009–10 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley. His research inter- ests include the development of centre–region relations in the Russian Federation, the reform of intra-executive relations in par- ticular, and state- and nation-building in Eurasia. Published books include Centre–Periphery Relations in Russia (Ashgate, 2001, co- edited with Geir Hønneland), Nation-building and Common Values in Russia (Rowman & Littlefi eld, 2004, co-edited with Pål Kolstø), Tackling Space: Federal Politics and the Russian North (University Press of America, 2005, co-edited with Geir Hønneland), The Governors’ Last Stand: Federal Bargaining in Russia’s Transition to Appointed Regional Heads (Unipub, 2015) and The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism, 2000– 15 (Edinburgh University Press, 2016, co-edited with Pål Kolstø). Blakkisrud has published peer-reviewed articles in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, East European Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Europe–Asia Studies, Geopolitics, Nationalities Papers and Post-Soviet Affairs. J. Paul Goode is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Russian Politics at the University of Bath, UK. In 2014–16, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Perm State National Research Univer- sity and Tiumen State University in Russia. Goode is also Associate Editor of Political Studies Review. His research interests include nationalism and ethnic politics, authoritarian and hybrid regimes, research methods and regionalism, and centre–region relations in ix 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd iixx 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM x russia before and after crimea Russia. He is the author of The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues (Routledge, 2011), and guest editor of two issues of Social Science Quarterly on research methods and fi eldwork in the study of nationalism (2015) and authoritarianism (2016). He has published peer-reviewed articles in Europe–Asia Studies, Jour- nal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, Russian Politics and Social Science Quarterly. Robert Horvath is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Austra- lia. During 2011–15, he held an Australian Research Council research fellowship. His research interests include the politics of human rights and radical nationalism in post-Soviet Russia. Hor- vath is the author of The Legacy of Soviet Dissent: Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia (Routledge, 2005) and Putin’s ‘Preventive Counter-Revolution’: Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution (Routledge, 2013); his articles have been published in Europe–Asia Studies, Russian Review, Nationalities Papers and Human Rights Quar- terly. He is currently working on a monograph about the neo-nazi organisation Russian Image (Russkii obraz) and its role in Putin’s ‘managed nationalism’. Eleanor Knott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Meth- odology at the London School of Economics, UK. Her disserta- tion in Political Science (2016) examined the politics of co-ethnicity and citizenship from the bottom-up, in the cases of Moldova and Crimea, by analysing the meanings of kin–state identifi cation and engagement with kin–state practices (citizenship and quasi-citizen- ship). Knott has published peer-reviewed articles in Citizenship Studies, Democratization, East European Politics and Societies, Electoral Studies, Nations and Nationalism and Social Science Quarterly. She is currently working on a book manuscript compar- ing kin–state politics using the approach of everyday nationalism in Crimea and Moldova. Pål Kolstø is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Oslo. His main research areas are nationalism, nation-building, ethnic confl icts and nationality policy in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. His books include Nation-building and Ethnic Integration in Post-Soviet Societies (Westview Press, 1999, 55568_Kolsto568_Kolsto aandnd BBlakkisrud.inddlakkisrud.indd x 221/11/171/11/17 11:04:04 PPMM notes on contributors xi editor), Political Construction Sites: Nation-building in Russia and the Post-Soviet States (Westview Press, 2000), National Integration and Violent Confl ict in Post-Soviet
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